My creative publications include:

  • Various journals 2000-2004 including Rain Dog, Skald, The Coffee House, power of the word.com, Aabye, Nerve, Poetry Life
  • “Foreign Tastes” in ‘Out of Fashion: an anthology of poems’ edited by Carol Ann Duffy, (2005) Faber and Faber, UK
  • “Straight Ahead” by Clare Shaw, Bloodaxe, 2006
  • “Final Night”, Daily Mirror 2007
  • “The No Baby Poem” in “Answering Back: an anthology of poems’ edited by Carol Ann Duffy, (2007) Faber and Faber, UK
  • "Cave Rescue" and "This Poem has Nothing to do with Me" in  "A Twist of Malice" (Grey Hen Press, 2008)
  • “Mother” in “Some Girls’ Mothers” edited by Anne Caldwell, Route 2008 
  • “It could have been” in “Exit Wounds – the New War Poetry”. The Guardian, July 25th 2009
  • forthcoming publication in Magma 2011
  • forthcoming anthology Faber and Faber 2012

 

 Some of my favourite readings and performances:

2002 – 2003: ‘Carol Ann Duffy and Friends’at the        

Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre.

2004: reader and featured poet in the MasterClass at the Aldeburgh Poetry

Festival

2004: guest reader at the Hurst, Arvon centre, Shropshire

2005: Sheffield Literature Festival

2003: guest reader at Lumb Bank, Arvon centre, Yorkshire

2006: Lancaster Litfest

2007: Cheltenham Literature Festval

2007: "Luke Wright’s Poetry Party”, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

2007: Bristol Poetry Festival

2007: Manchester Literature Festival

2007: guest reader at Ty Newydd, National Writer’s Centre for Wales

2008-2010: ‘Some Girls’ Mothers’ Tour – gigs across the UK

2009: “Poem and a Pint” in Cumbria

2010: Dorothy Wordsworth Festival of Women’s Poetry

2010: Poetry Garden Party, Manchester

2010: reader alongside the famous Master Joseph Sebastian Shaw at "A Poem and a Pint", Nelson ACE Centre

2011: Chester Literature Festival

2011: final performance of Some Girls' Mothers at Huddersfield Literature Festival

 

 

A selection of the workshops I’ve facilitated:

2002-2005: regular guest facilitator at Manchester Survivor’s Poetry

2003-2006: “Writing the Self”: annual weekend residentials at Women’s Holiday Centre, Horton-in Ribblesdale

2008: “Giant Personalities” writing workshop at Personality Plus Creative Personalities event, Leeds Carriageworks

2009: tutor for school’s residential week at Ty Newydd, National Writer’s Centre for Wales

2009-2010: “Some Girl’s Mothers” workshop facilitator on our world tour 

2009: “Finding Magic in the Ordinary”, workshop for Barnsley Signposts

2011: tutor at for Manchester Girls at Ty Newydd

 

And some other stuff:

2001: I adapted and performed in ‘1000 Murdered Girls’, a collaborative production based on the poetry of Greek women resistance fighters. Staged at the Masque Theatre, Liverpool.

2007-2008: I acted as mentor to the lovely Jan Peterson, as part of a Lancaster Litfest project

2008: “That’s not the way to do it!”: a play in five acts by Clare Shaw, was performed at the Leeds Carriageworks by Shoestring Theatre

2008: I was speechless with excitement when my poem "About the Arguments" was read live from the Latitude Festival on Radio Four's "Poetry Please!"

2009: My favourite poem by me, "You", featured in the fantastic "Hundred Poems While You Wait" project, which aims to bring poetry into hospitals http://bp1.blogger.com/_07C5XWX_XiQ/SBx6iMG_gII/AAAAAAAAAeI/OF2cT_ClPYo/s1600-h/B15S1_You.jpg

2010: I had a non-fiction piece published in "Writing the Self", edited by John Killick and Myra Scheider, published by Continuum and featuring writing by great authors including Pascale Petit and Penelope Shuttle.